Olympic Tickets

About 60,000 tickets are available for sale for the opening ceremony. Focus on hot spots for 2008 Olympic ticket sales 2006/10/29 01:21 Xinhuanet, Beijing, October 27 (Reporters Gao Peng and Wang Yong) With the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee On the 27th, the exclusive supplier of ticketing services for the 2008 Olympic Games was officially confirmed, and ticket sales for the Beijing Olympics have once again become the focus of attention. How can ordinary people buy Olympic tickets? Are tickets to the Beijing Olympics expensive? The reporter interviewed relevant people from the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee on these hot issues.

About 60,000 tickets can be sold for the opening ceremony.

According to Rong Jun, director of the Ticketing Center of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, the total number of tickets available for the 2008 Olympic Games will exceed 7 million. "This is more than the number of tickets for the Athens Olympics because most of our venues have larger capacities than Athens," Rong Jun said.

Of the total ***7 million Olympic tickets, what proportion is sold to Chinese people? In this regard, Rong Jun said that it is difficult to have an accurate calculation. He said: "According to estimates, about 30% of the tickets will go abroad, and 70% will be sold domestically. We think this ratio is a relatively healthy ratio."

The Olympic opening ceremony tickets have always been the most expensive In hot demand, how many tickets are on sale for the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony? Rong Jun said that the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics will be held at the National Stadium. The designed seating capacity of the National Stadium is 91,000. Since the press box and the TV broadcast box will occupy a considerable amount, the opening ceremony tickets sold to the public will be about 6 About 10,000 pieces.

Tickets are generally low

In recent Olympic Games, a ticket for the preliminaries of unpopular events is usually around two to three hundred yuan, and tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies The maximum amount can reach nearly 10,000 yuan. For ordinary Chinese people, this price is really high. So, what will be the price of tickets for the 2008 Olympic Games?

Rong Jun said that the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee fully took into account the consumption power and consumption level of the Chinese people when determining ticket prices. A basic principle is to enable as many people as possible to watch the games on site, so in addition to , the closing ceremony and the finals of some popular events, the ticket prices for most events are set relatively low.

Rong Jun told Xinhua News Agency reporters: "Before the end of this year, we will announce the specific price range from the highest price to the lowest price for tickets for each project." There is an upper limit on the number of tickets purchased by each person

< p>Rong Jun said: "There will be a limit on the number of tickets that each person is allowed to purchase. As for the specific number, we will announce it in the future."

Rong Jun said that the main purposes of limiting the number of tickets per person are Two aspects: first, to allow more people to have a fair opportunity to purchase tickets, instead of concentrating tickets in the hands of a few people; second, to prevent possible ticket scalping.

Multiple ticket purchase channels

According to the plan of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, Olympic tickets will be sold to the public in the first half of next year. Rong Jun said that, basically the same as previous Olympic Games, the Beijing Olympics will adopt multiple sales channels such as the Internet, telephone call centers, and on-site sales at venues.

In addition, Rong Jun said that the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee will also choose a partner to sell Olympic tickets nationwide to ensure that people across the country can easily buy tickets in their region.

Ticket sales may adopt a real-name system

In previous Olympic Games, a large part of the funds for the Olympic Games came from ticket revenue. Ticketing work is not only related to the economic income of the Olympic Games, but also related to Olympic security, national image and international influence. Therefore, the issue of ticket anti-counterfeiting is particularly important.

Rong Jun said that the next focus of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee’s work is to consider anti-counterfeiting measures for tickets, which does not rule out the possibility of adopting a real-name system. He said: "Actually, the real-name system is mainly for security reasons, and we are still studying this." (End)

Olympic tickets are generally responsible for the sales company of the organizing committee, mostly with Pre-sales are mainly used, and its benefits include the following: ① Provide opportunities for foreign tourists; ② Avoid economic waste caused by insufficient seats; ③ Provide an image promotion for the host place; ④ Sometimes charity sales can be held to raise funds. Export tickets are generally sold through international travel agencies in various countries.

Sales take the form of package tickets and individual tickets. There are two types of ticket packages: one is the "big ticket package", which is a complete set of tickets for the opening ceremony, closing ceremony and all games; the other is the "small ticket package", which is a ticket for all the games of a certain event, or several A package of tickets for a combination of tournaments. ?

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